It is essential for Parasports Québec to promote good practices in sport and provide coaches with solutions to promote their activity in a healthy environment, respectful of the individual and adapted to the development of athletes.
The following guide, from the series ” L’utilisation de la discipline positive dans le sport : un guide pour les entraîneur.e.s ” (FR) and developed by the SIMS Chair of Laval University in collaboration with the Synergia Joint Research Unit, helps to establish this climate of respect.
This guide aims to:
- Debunk common myths and misconceptions surrounding punishment and disciplinary strategies frequently used in coaching;
- Provide effective alternatives to help coaches address and manage disciplinary situations.
Sport’Aide has launched a series of guides designed to support parents in their children’s sports activities. These guides all share a common goal: to create a positive sporting experience for young athletes!
- The guides for planning activities with parents were designed for the coaches to optimize the preseason meeting with parents and facilitate their participation in their child’s sporting experience. The second version (“Alternative over three periods”) offers an alternative to the basic guide for spreading activities over three distinct times, including during the first two tournaments of the season.
- The guide for parents, “Accompanying your child in sport: good practices and pitfalls to avoid”, presents ideas for good practices to adopt and pitfalls to avoid to promote a positive experience for your child.
By equipping parents and coaches, Sport’Aide wants to contribute to a common goal: that every child, regardless of their background, can grow and flourish through a positive sporting experience.
For an athlete, sport is about competition and giving their best in the quest for self-improvement and athletic excellence. Using prohibited substances or methods amounts to cheating and can seriously harm an athlete’s health. Doping undermines the very foundations of sport and severely damages its integrity, image, and value.
Athletes are role models and have a great deal of influence on young people. The behavior of elite athletes has a significant impact on young people who admire them and seek to emulate their sporting heroes, reproducing their actions and attitudes.
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES), in collaboration with sport organizations, athletes, coaches and athletes’ medical support staff, intends to establish doping-free sport on behalf of all Canadians and to protect the right of athletes to a fair and ethical sporting environment.
As the organism responsible for the administration of the Canadian Anti-Doping Program (CAP), the CCES dedicates a large part of its resources to promoting doping-free sport. The PCA protects athletes’ right to fair and ethical competition and works to preserve the integrity of amateur sport.
The CCES carries out its mission through a comprehensive approach focused on education, prevention, detection, deterrence, investigations, and support for research conducted in these areas. Doping control programs and investigations are a necessary component of this approach and aim to deter and detect the use of prohibited substances and methods.
The PCA is a program that ensures all aspects of anti-doping measures, including medical exemptions, testing, results, and appeals, are conducted with the utmost transparency and are subject to accountability. The PCA complies with all mandatory components of the World Anti-Doping Program.
More information on anti-doping measures
The beneficial effects of a physically active lifestyle on fitness, physical and mental health, and even academic success are well known. However, it must be acknowledged that physical activity can carry risks of injury, particularly concussion.
Accidents during training (particularly in wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby) or outside of training can affect athletes. It is therefore very important to be informed and follow return-to-training protocols.